Servicemembers reach out to Afghanistan women
Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Darlene Gonzales (right) talks with a school teacher and her students at an elementary school Sept. 29 in Herat, Afghanistan. Senior Chief Gonzales, a contracting team leader for the Afghan Regional Security Integration Command-West at Camp Stone in Herat, and nine other U.S. military women met with female teachers to drop off donated and requested supplies and to discuss ways coalition and the Afghan national security forces could be of assistance to the school and to Afghan women in general. (U.S. Marine photo/Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr.)